Jeff Leen, Utter Piece of Lying Filth and Thief of Oxygen, Also Employed at the Washington Post to Spread Lies and Defame People, Get's Shot Down

Fri, 30/01/2015 - 23:17 — smashdracs

The movie, “Kill the Messenger,” portrays the mainstream U.S. news media as craven for destroying Gary Webb rather than expanding on his investigation of the Contra-cocaine scandal. So, now one of those “journalists” is renewing the character assassination of Webb, notes Robert Parry.

Jeff Leen, the Washington Post’s assistant managing editor for investigations, begins his
renewed attack on the late Gary Webb’s Contra-cocaine reporting with a falsehood.

Leen insists that there is a journalism dictum that “an extraordinary claim requires extraordinary proof.” But Leen must know that it is not true. Many extraordinary claims, such as assertions in 2002-03 that Iraq was hiding arsenals of WMDs, were published as flat-fact without “extraordinary proof” or any real evidence at all, including by Leen’s colleagues at the Washington Post.
READ MORE: https://consortiumnews.com/2014/10/18/wposts-slimy-assault-on-gary-webb/